The Minnesota baseball team (39-20) will head to Long Beach, Calif. for the NCAA Regionals, where it will take on Washington (40-16) in the first game on Friday, May 30 at 5 p.m. (CT). Host Long Beach State (38-18) and Pepperdine (36-23) will be the other teams in the four-team regional.
Minnesota claimed the No. 2 seed, and will take on the third-seeded Washington Huskies in its first game. The second game of the session between first-seeded Long Beach State and fourth-seeded Pepperdine will take place on Friday, May 30 at 9 p.m. (CT).
The losers of the first two games will play on Saturday, June 1 at 1 p.m. (CT), while the winners play at 5 p.m. (CT). The final game of the second day would take place at 9 p.m. (CT). The championship game(s) would be Sunday, June 2.
“We feel like we got a seed a representative of the type of year we had,” said Minnesota Head Coach John Anderson. “We played an aggressive schedule at the beginning of the year with an experienced group and won the Big Ten regular season title. I think that the our schedule at the beginning of the season will help us be prepared for what is a quality group of baseball programs in our NCAA Regional.”
The winner of the Long Beach Regional (No. 1 Long Beach State, No. 2 Minnesota, No. 3 Washington, No. 4 Pepperdine) will take on the winner of the Stanford Regional (No. 2 Richmond, No.3 UC Riverside and No. 4 Illinois-Chicago) in the Super Regionals, June 6-8.
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